Why did business leaders in the North support tariffs?

he North, first of all, had an economy based on trade and manufacturing. Northerners supported tariffs – taxes on imported and exported goods – because tariffs helped them compete with British factories. ... Southerners imported their manufactured goods.

Explanation:

every society, in order to meet the needs of it's people, has to answer three basic questions:

- what should we produce?

- how should we produce it?

- for whom should we produce it?

this questions must be answered in order to, option b, aid in production decisions.

every country can't produce everything, no matter how rich their land is. it may be a matter of technology, resources or geographical conditions. so, these three questions must be resolved in order to get the most of the production of each land.

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